Stephen Hickman
Senior Lecturer
Organisation Studies
The Business School University of Exeter
United Kingdom
Biography
Stephen Hickman is an educationalist with over two decades of senior management experience in; marketing, distribution, inventory management and then, prior to moving into academia a long term secondment to a European IT project. After several years with the University of Greenwich (2000-2007), a subsequent role as HE Manager with Cornwall College, Stephen joined the University of Exeter Business School as interim Director for the Exeter MBA. In 2009 he led the transition to the new One Planet MBA, a collaboration with WWF, before in 2011 directing a curriculum change initiative to embed sustainability in the MSc International Management. In June 2012 Stephen’s article ‘A new trajectory for management education’ was published in The European Financial Review. In 2013 he co-authored a chapter for the ‘Collaboratory’ a book comprising ideas which originated in RIO+20 UN 2012 from conference conversations about societal transformation. In 2014 Stephen took on a new role at Exeter: leading Business School activity in Cornwall. He is now based at the University of Exeter, Penryn campus where he is Programme Director for BSc Business which successfully recruited its first cohort in September 2015.
Research Interest
Ethnography (using photographic narrative), Participant observation, Micro-business operations and strategy, Logistics, Coastal zone management.
Publications
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Hickman SP (2007). Cumulative findings from a single location field study of a search and dredge shellfish operation based at Leigh on Sea, Essex. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications
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Hickman SP, Xie Y, Zhou L (2007). A critical evaluation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software sourcing and provision. International Journal of Integrated Supply Management
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Hickman SP (2012). A new trajectory for management education (the One Planet MBA story).
